Our first post about it was on August 11, 2014, as rioting broke out. We kept
the coverage non-evaluative. We learned from prior cases, such as
Trayvon Martin, not to accept at face value racial and other
narratives...

Trayvon Martin’s shooting planted the seeds for the movement.
Contrary to popular myth, Trayvon was not unlawfully shot and
killed by George Zimmerman. The trial evidence was overwhelming
that Trayvon attacked Zimmerman with a punch to the nose and when
shot was on...

Posted by Andrew Branca ▪ Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 8:30am4/8/2015 at 8:30am

Last weekend a cop shot of a fleeing unarmed black man in
Charleston, SC.

Not all the facts are in, but the video (apparently captured by
a cell phone) is damning; it shows the cop firing at the fleeing
black man several times, finally bringing him to the ground.
There seems...

Posted by Andrew Branca ▪ Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 3:30pm3/4/2015 at 3:30pm

The New York Times reports that the Department of
Justice has released an extensive report (embedded below) clearing
former Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson of civil
rights violations in the shooting death of Mike Brown in August
2014.

Wilson’s shooting of Brown led to weeks of often violent
protests, including repeated...

Posted by Andrew Branca ▪ Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 12:30pm12/3/2014 at 12:30pm

Bill O’Reilly focused on the ongoing Ferguson Grand Jury
kerfuffle in his opening segment last night, revealing in stark
detail the contrast between the reasoned perspective of those
accepting the facts and evidence presented to the Grand Jury as
well as their decision and the inanity of the reason-free “Hands
Up,...

Posted by Andrew Branca ▪ Sunday, November 30, 2014 at 7:30am11/30/2014 at 7:30am

One of the most recent of the seemingly never-ending succession
of Progressive complaints about the Ferguson Grand Jury is that the
Grand Jury’s decision not to indict is inherently flawed
because they were permitted to consider self-defense.

Those professing this argument rely for support on one of their
favorite variations of the classic...

Posted by Andrew Branca ▪ Saturday, November 29, 2014 at 12:15pm11/29/2014 at 12:15pm

As a follow-up to our post yesterday, de-bunking Lawrence
O’Donnell’s claim that a purported error on the part of prosecutors
led the Ferguson Grand Jury into error, I thought it might be
informative to progress that de-bunking to an even more
comprehensive level.

Darren Wilson, the Ferguson Police Officer whom a Grand Jury
declined to indict over the shooting death of Micheal Brown, gave a
lengthy in-person interview to George Stephanopoulos on ABC
News last night. That interview is embedded at the bottom of this
post.

Posted by Andrew Branca ▪ Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at 1:30pm11/26/2014 at 1:30pm

This post focuses on the second-half of Police Officer’s
testimony before the Grand Jury, during which he is responding to
direct questions from both the Prosecutors present (Whirley and
Alizadeh) as well as from individual Grand Jury members.

This portion of the testimony also covers the relevant
post-shooting events.